Hey there! I'm Misbah

Software Engineer Intern at geotrans lab logo AltaML

I'm a 3rd Year Computer Engineering Student. I live and breathe programming.

I am also a

system design + infra enthusiast cat hater turned lover mentor for 5 cs/swe students ex-national swimmer unapologetic project addict

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currently

SWE intern at AltaML | Brilliant Harvest; backend + infra in
3rd-year computer engineering (software co-op) at UofA

previously

SWE research assistant at GeoTrans Lab; shipped a production grade ML system
SWE intern at VSF Holdings; built an investment analytics app and automated onboarding workflows
SWE member at AlbertaSAT; rust simulations and software-in-the-loop testing for CubeSat systems

also

former Vice President at Computer Engineering Club
former AI student ambassador at Intel
currently mentoring 3 juniors + 2 seniors
ex-national swimmer

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quick facts

previously profitable day trader (+ $3600)
long-term tech market investor
finance news mix: NYT, Bloomberg, and infamous regarded subreddits
previous cat hater turned lover (cat cafés hate to see me coming)
4 scholarships totaling $16,000
received ~$1000 to attend hackathons and meet people

in my free time

gym, new foods, cat cafés, matchas
impulsively signing up for hackathons i may or may not attend
building projects until an edge case humbles me

how i work

i like being challenged; strong opinions, loosely held
i can pick up new stacks fast because the fundamentals do not change
i approach system design around real users; reliability, performance, and scaling

tech i've shipped across

backend + infra: apis, distributed systems, databases, observability
cloud + deploy: ,,,,
full stack: ,,,,
mobile: ,,,
ai/ml: only when it helps ship something real

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goals

learn how startups go 0→1, then 1→thousands; product, execution, and growth, not just code
dabble in startups over the next few years as a creative learning outlet, not necessarily full-time
document my SWE journey publicly and grow my network on linkedin
get back to peak shape after a back injury
build healthy relationships with the people i care about
give back through mentoring juniors who are where i was not too long ago

My go-to Tech Stack

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My Work Experience

AltaML

Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

Software Engineer Intern

Backend engineer (, ) on the Brilliant Harvest team to commercialize AI-powered solutions in the AgTech industry.
Owned setup of the Aspire dashboard for a distributed system spanning 13+ microservices (, , and a central Web API) and supporting 3+ infrastructure components (, , shared relational DB).
Added distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and health checks across services and infrastructure via Aspire, reducing average developer debugging time from 2 hours to 30 seconds.

ASP.NETEF CoreAspireXUnitAgile

GeoTrans Lab

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Software Engineer Research Assistant

Architected a full-stack web system for road-surface and tire-friction detection to identify slippage and low traction.
Attained 88% accuracy across five surface types (dry, wet, icy, snowy, slushy) for multi-condition classification.
Refined ONNX inference pipeline with and GPU acceleration, reducing latency by 6× on 144-image batches.
Implemented Gemini-based preprocessing to skip untrackable conditions, raising inference reliability to 94%.
Automated deployments to with Hub Actions, shortening setup time by 40% overall.

VSF Holdings

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

Software Engineer Intern

Constructed a full-stack investment analytics web app on using , , and cloud functions.
Developed CRM, KYC, and ETL pipelines using and , automating 80% of the onboarding process.
Instrumented RESTful APIs for efficient reads and writes, cutting request latency by 40% at scale.

Intel Corporation

May 2025 - Aug 2025

AI Student Ambassador

Led hands-on workshops for 300+ learners on the Intel AI Analytics Toolkit (, XGBoost); profiling, optimization, and practical workflows.
Built and shared reproducible demos and notebooks; helped students go from “it runs” to “it runs fast.”

XGBoostIntel® Tiber™ AI Studio

Headstarter

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Software Engineer Resident

Built and shipped 14+ full-stack and AI projects; production-minded workflows across backends and frontends.
Learned through fast iteration; feedback-driven building over perfectionism.

LLMsXGBoost

Computer Engineering Club

Sep 2024 – Dec 2025

Vice President

Led industry outreach for major student events (Aether, HackED, HackED Beta); sponsorship pipeline and partner coordination.
Supported programming and community initiatives reaching 2,500+ students; mentoring and support for newer members.

Leadership

AlbertaSAT

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024

Software Engineer Member

Collaborated within an Agile Scrum team with multidisciplinary members on a cube-satellite launching April 2026.
Validated -based simulations for 25+ components, resolving protocol, state, and timing bugs across 4 integrations.
Executed software-in-the-loop flight tests over TCP command interfaces to de-risk deployment and avoid hardware testing.

SimulationSystems Engineering

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My Projects

This Website!

My very own portfolio website!

Leetboard

A competitive programming leaderboard that helps students benchmark their LeetCode progress against classmates and rival universities.

Finnwise

Duolingo for Financial Wisdom. Built during nwHacks 2026.

GitHub Actions

Winter Road Surface Monitoring

Analyzing winter road grip conditions as a GeoTrans Lab undergraduate research assistant.

Ergonomiq

AI-powered ergonomic wellness system combining computer vision and EMG sensors for real-time posture, eye strain, and wrist monitoring. Built during nathacks 2025.

PostureGuard AI

Real-time posture monitoring and analysis using AI-powered pose detection. Built during Hack The North 2025.

Property Recommendation System

AI-powered property recommendation system for real estate appraisals

XGBoost

Brain Tumor Classification

Classifying brain tumors in MRI scans using advanced deep learning, with a Streamlit web app and Xception transfer learning.

Customer AI Voice Assistant

An intelligent system that powers automated customer service interactions through AI-driven conversations

Multimodal Video Analysis

Multimodal video assistant powered by Gemini - ever wish your video could answer back? Now it can

youtube-transcript-api

Reddit Stock Sentiment Analyzer

A Python-based tool that analyzes Reddit posts and comments to gauge stock sentiment, correlating social sentiment with market data for trend insights.

Cointegration Pairs Trading System

End-to-end cointegration-based pairs trading engine with clustering, OLS modeling, ADF testing, rolling z-score signals, and a full portfolio backtester.

Insurance Claims Automation

AI-driven medical form automation system that extracts data from referral packages and fills Prior Authorization PDFs in under 2 minutes

Google Gemini API

PlayMG

EMG-based gesture control interface using the Bioamp EXG Pill and Arduino. Maps forearm muscle contractions to keyboard actions with real-time signal processing and peak detection algorithms

Tuesday.com

AI-powered project management platform built during HackED 2025

dotenvTogetherAI

Summarizely

Your Python-based AI sidekick: Gemini does the heavy lifting, then pushes polished summaries into Docs

Google Gemini APIGoogle Docs API

Spotify Album Finder

A web app to search artists and explore their full album discography using the Spotify Web API.

Spotify Web APIFetch API

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